Content Management

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The content management system allows organizers to create pages and page

sections for a conference.  You may want to have an entire page about a job

fair, or may only want to have an editable section at the top of a tutorial

schedule with some instructions for all of the tutorial attendees.

CMS App

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The ``cms`` app provides functionality for creating wiki pages. These pages can

be created using the django admin. The django admin form has controls for

specifying:

* title

* markup content

* url path

* tags

* public or draft mode

* publication date

Page content and title can also be edited directly at the url. The ``cms`` app

uses the `django-reversion <http://django-reversion.readthedocs.org>`_ package,

thus content is version controlled.

Boxes App

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The ``boxes`` app allows for sections of a page to be edited like a wiki. To use this in a template

use the ``boxes_tags`` and specify a box section of a page using the ``boxes`` tag:

.. code-block:: django

    {% load boxes_tags %}

    {% boxes "intro_section" %}

This template will render an editable content box. When a staff user visits the

page,  they will see an ``Edit this content`` button. The ``boxes`` app also uses the

``django-reversion`` package.

Pinax Symposion is an open-source conference management system written in

Django.  Symposion includes support for content management, proposal

submission, reviews, scheduling and sponsor management.

   project

   content

   proposals

About

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Symposion came out of development done by Eldarion for DjangoCon US and US PyCon

but has been independently used for a number of other conferences.

The project homepage is http://eldarion.com/symposion/

Project Template

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The `pinax-project-symposion <https://github.com/pinax/pinax-project-symposion>`_ repository

is a starter project demonstrating how to create a minimal symposion instance.

TODO:

  * initial data

  * overriding templates

  * deployment